An aerial view of the Sumerian temple. Archaeologists in Iraq have unearthed the remains of a 4,500-year-old Sumerian temple dedicated to Ningirsu, the Mesopotamian god of springtime thunder, the ...
Thousands of years before modern religion, the people of Sumer worshipped a powerful deity they called the "Mother of All Kings." Ninhursag was the architect of life itself, a goddess of fertility ...